Combination purse and billfold



E. k, RENZ 2,573,063

COMBINATION PURSE AND BILLFOLD Filed Feb. 19, 1948 HIS ATTORNEY PatentedOct. 30, 1951 COMBINATION PURSE AND BILLFOLD Emil Karl Renz, Dedham,Mass, assignor to Knight Leather Products Inc., Jamaica Plain,

Mass., a corporation of Massachusetts Application February 19, 1948,Serial No. 9,433

1 Claim. 1

The present invention relates to a combination purse and billfolder inwhich both change or coins and bills may be securely and convenientlycarried in one container.

An object of the present invention is to provide such a combinationpurse and billfolder in which the coins are easily retained and will notfall out or fall into the billfold compartment no matter in whatposition the article is held.

A further advantage of the present invention is to provide such acombination purse and billfolder which may readily be opened at thepurse end for the purpose of drawing out either the coins or the bills.

A further advantage of the present invention is that the bills areexposed at their ends immediately upon the opening of the purse but areat all times kept apart and never come in contact with the coins.

A further advantage of the present invention is that the coin containeror pocketbook is attached only to one side or wall of the billfold andtherefore permits the opening from the purse into the billfold to extendsubstantially across its whole width.

A further advantage of the present invention is that the stitching iscomparatively simple and is entirely open face stitching on two sheetsof material such as leather or fabric in face-to-face relation.

The purse end of the combination purse and billfold is provided with aslide fastening closure, and the upper edge of the open pursecompartment is brought sufficiently close to the slide fastener closureso that it is impossible for the coins to fall out of the purse folderinto the billfold compartment when the pocketbook has been closed.

A further advantage of the present invention is the incorporation of azipper for the billfold in one wall of the billfold at one side thereofbut away from the peripheral stitched edge joining the two wallstogether.

The present invention will be more fully described in connection withthe specifications showing an embodiment thereof; in which:

Fig. 1 shows a combination purse and billfold in a folded position;

Fig. 2 shows the same article in an open position;

Fig. 3 shows a fragmentary view of the combination purse and billfoldwith the purse pocket in an open position looking into it from the top;

Fig. 4 shows a perspective view of the purse portion of the billfold inan open position;

Fig. 5 shows a section taken substantially on the line 55 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 6 shows a perspective view of the purse section of the billfoldwith part of the billfold section broken away.

In the drawings the billfold comprises an outer wall I and an inner wall2. The inner wall may be folded in the central section 3 where the wallmay be recessed slightly on the sides as indicated at 4, 4. The outerand inner walls may be stitched together in face-to-face relationshipabout their peripheral edge as shown by the edge stitching I whichextends all the way around the inner face near the border or edge exceptfor the purse end wherein the stitching 1 stitches one part of the slidefastener. For the purpose of folding the purse along the central fold 3and holding it in place, snap fastener elements 8 and 9 may be properlypositioned on the outer side of the inner wall near the end edges.Eyelets I0 and I I may be put through both outer and inner walls alongthe side edges for a key chain. By means of this arrangement, the keysmay lie against the outside of the inner wall slightly away from thecentral fold and next to where the purse section begins, which isnormally thicker than other sections of the billfold because of thepurse pocket, as will be presently seen. Because the purse pocketsection is thicker than the rest of the billfold section, the keys inthe position described will lie in a substantial recess and not causeadditional bulk when the article is in its normal folded position. Aslide fastener I2 is attached to a lengthwise slot on the inner wall,the slot being positioned in from the edge of the wall, therebypermitting the side edges along the length to come together even thoughthe billfold may be quite full. The slide fastener is stitched directlyto the material of the walls or secured in any other desirable way.Stitched in face relation on the inner wall along a portion of the sideas indicated at I3 and the top as indicated at I4 is a frame I5,providing an opening I6 facing the center section of the billfold topermit the insertion of identification or other cards, memos,

pictures, or the like. The outer wall of the billfold, as indicated moreparticularly in Figs. 4 and 6, has sewn to it a gusseted pocket, withside pleats I8 and I9. This gusseted pocket is formed with a face sheet20 which is stitched to the back wall I by through stitching, which asindicated at 22 holds the edge zipper 2| for the purse securely inplace. The purse pocket is preferably made of a single piece of material(as indicated in Figs. 4 and 6) by making the outer section 23 of thepurse pocket a folded half of the section 20. To provide this efiect,the fabric, leather, or other material of which the pocket is made iscut in at the sides as indicated at 24 and 25 in the shape of a narrow Vand the section 23 is simply the folded other half of the section 20.-To complete the pocket, the sides are stitched up as indicated at 21.The other side (not visible in Fig. 6) is stitched up in the same way,and in fact this stitching is the same stitching which goes through tothe rear Wall or outer wall and holds the zipper in place. The wall 23of the purse pocket, which may be called the free wall, extends upwardalmost as high as the other wall 20 which is attached to the rear Wallof the billfold. This extension of the free wall is brought upsufficiently high so that when the zipper is closed over the open end ofthe purse there will not be sufficient space for the coins to slide overthe edge of the free wall and come down into the billfold sections.

The billfold section is completely accessible from the purse end of thepocketbook, simply by unfolding the article and opening up the endzipper 2|. When this is done the upper edges and ends of the bills areexposed and they may be readily fingered one after the other similarlyas done by bank tellers to withdraw the desired bill or bills, Forinsertion of bills in the billfold, if desired, the zipper in the faceof the inner wall may be opened and bills taken out or removed.

Having now described my invention, I claim:

A combination purse and billfold having an outer wall and an inner wall,slide fastener means forming a closure between the outer wall and theinner wall around the periphery at one end of the combination purse andbillfold forming a purse closure for the combination, said outer andinner wall being joined at least along one side and the other end ofsaid combination, a gusseted pocket having one wall only attached to theinside of the outer wall of the combination with the opening for saidpocket facing and adjacent said closure, the edge of the opening beingsufiiciently close to said closure whereby a coin inserted in the pocketcannot slide over the edge of the opening.

EMIL KARL RENZ.

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